On a call with @CassieCodes and Brody, who is contributing a lot—a very good doggo!
Notes
5750Thursday, January 21st, 2021
Wednesday, January 20th, 2021
Replying to a tweet from @ade_oshineye
Cool URIs don’t change.
The list was at http://www.google.com/corporate/tenthings.html
I’ll update my collection: https://principles.adactio.com/#google
Sunday, January 17th, 2021

Checked in at Queen’s Park. Parklife! — with Jessica
Monday, January 11th, 2021
Replying to a tweet from @Brilliantcrank
Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
Working out of my living room means anyone on a video call with me can see that the Christmas tree is still up.
If someone mentions it, I ask if they’re with the Christmas Police (because if they are, they have to tell me—that’s the law).
Saturday, January 9th, 2021
Cynicism is a theory of everything.
—Rutger Bregman
You need skin. Take good care of it. Don’t harm a hair of it. What would you do without it? Keep it clean. Soapy water every day will wash the dirt and smells away ’cause you need skin.
Replying to a tweet from @cassiecodes
I call dibs on Conservative Web Apps.
Friday, January 8th, 2021
Reading Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman, translated by Elizabeth Manton and Erica Moore.

Thursday, January 7th, 2021
It’s like Boris Johnson’s government came up with the current mix of activities for Donald Trump:
Rule 1: You’re not allowed to post on Facebook or Instagram anymore.
Rule 2: You can still launch nuclear missiles.
Replying to a tweet from @LeaVerou
Congratulations! Well deserved!
Thursday, December 31st, 2020
Seeing out 2020 in style.
Myself and @wordridden have been watching all the Marvel movies (in timeline order) over the holidays and we’re almost done.
Tonight we will start watching Avengers: Infinity war at 9:48:54pm so that Thanos’s snap happens at midnight.
Books I read in 2020: https://adactio.com/journal/17724
Fiction by @DeuceOfGears, @GreatDismal, @QwertyKate, @UrsulaKLeGuin, @BrianAldiss, et al.
Non-fiction by @DellSystem, @AnnaWiener, @DavidDeutschOxf, @AdamRutherford, et al.
Wednesday, December 30th, 2020
Replying to a tweet from @erikkroes
Yay! Glad you liked it, Erik!
Friday, December 25th, 2020
Replying to a tweet from @kolearyUX
You and Bob Dylan both!
Replying to a tweet from @kolearyUX
My wife just said the same thing—“he was probably a conscript himself!”
Playing Arthur McBride (song) on bouzouki …for it being on Christmas morning: